Paper box.



P. S. SMITH.

PAPER BOX. I APPLICATION FHED FEB,16. 9W1.-

l l fllg. Patented Aug. 10, 1915.

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P. 8. SMITH.

PAPER BOX APPLICATION FILED FEB: I6v IQIIII 1,149,412. Patented Aug. 10,1915.

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body port X xxx-akin e separate an viewof fa modification of the arrangement box. l i 15 is a )ers ective view of an as sembled box with the cover adhesively secured to the base and consequently hinged to the base, and showing thecover slightly raised from the base and swung up on its hinge member. Fig. 16, is a perspective and ,position of the sideflaps, and Fig. 17, is

a perspective 'view of a completed and assembled box embodying my. invention.

Similar letters of referentte refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings-The numerals l and 2 designate two paste-b0ard blanks. These two blanks are cut from a sheet of paste-board into forms that are adapted to be bent up and secured at the sides and ends into a base portion 1 of a box, and a cover portion 2' of a box, see Figs. 10, 11 and 12. These two paste-board blank portions 1 and 2, which are illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, are preferably made ust alike as to shape and size, and as illustrated they represent an oblong or parallelogram shapedsquare ended box having sides and end portions that are arranged at right angles to each other,

and in which the sides 3 and 3 are longer.

than the ends 4 and 4'. It will be understood, however, that square boxes can be made having sides of equal lengths, and also that cap or cover portions can be made of a different depth than the depth of the base, although these parts are preferably made of equal depths.

My present invention as preferably described, contemplates the making of square shaped boxes having sides that are longer than their ends, and contemplates the making of boxes of various sizes that have a ring shaped body portion 5, that sets inside of and is secured to the blank base portion 1". The cover portion 2" of the box, also sets loosely over the ring shaped body portion '5, and is hinged to the base portion by a suitable covering material. These blank base and cover portions 1 and 2, are first cut out of sheets of paste-board into the blank lornis shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and their corner portions 6 are cut away to leave the sides sides 3 3 independent of each'other, and at substantially right angles to each other, which op eration can be performed in machines adapted to cut out the corners of box blanks. The pasteboard blanks are then provided along their sides and ends with parallelly arranged grooves 7, which are arranged parallel with their sides and ends, and are arand ends t t", entirely fre i. and 1 ranged to meet each other at the junction of the corners of their sides and ends. The object of these grooves or creases is to permit the blank base and cover portions l and 2 to be broken along these grooves or creases, and the operation of forming these grooves is termed scoring, and is applied to the blanks after they are formed with their corners 'cut out by scoring machines, which are especially designed and adapted for this purpose, and the art of making paper boxes is well supplied with scoring machines that can be used for this purpose.

The paste-board blanks for forming the base and cover portions 1 and 2 of the cigarette box, are now properly formed and scored. and they are ready for the next step treatment of my improved method of construction. This next step treatment is to place or set these paste-board blanks onto a tinishing'covering blank especially designed to cover them in sucha manner that the base and its coverwhen assembled into a completed box, will have a finished appearance, and will be artistically covered with some material having a heat finished surface, and that will act at the same-time as a binding and covering material. Smooth calendered or other surface finished paper is almost exclusively used for this paste-board covering material, but certain fabrics like silk, leather, and other material may be used if desired, but as paper is universally used, I

step iirmy new method f box construction is to provide a finishing paper covering blank of such form. that it can be used both as a binder for securing the corners of the adjacent {i'i'oovcd or scored sides and end portions of the paste-board box forming blanks together, as well as act as an artistic and i'inislaed surfaced covering material for the paste hoard box forming blanks l and 2, that will rcndcrthc base andcover portions of the box when combined into a complete box as shown in Fig. 17. morepleasing in appearance and of a. smooth and finished appearance. I. employ two, or a pair of these finishing paper blanks 8 and 8', see Figs. 4 and 'lhesc linishiiig paper blanks are of peculiar and novel form and are arranged to act asthe finished covering material, and also as a hinge, to hinge the cover to the base, and also to act as a scat, to seal the cover to the base,:is will be lullydcscribcd hereinafter. They coi'iscqucntly form a very essential and important clement-of my invention. They hinged and sealed box; and while these special halt parts and portion member of boxes constructed by my improved method can be made on machines at present in use, the particular machine that I shall employ for making them will be made the subject of a separate application for a patent.

I will now describe the method I employ for assembling the parts.

As some manufacturers of cigarettes like to insert labels containing descriptive and advertising printed. matter in the inner top wall of the cover or on the floor of the base, or in both of these parts of the box, labels can be pasted in both of these members, or only in the cover. as desired, by" suitable machine mechanism that is well known in the art. The finishing paper blanks are first gu'mmed on one side only, and they may be either wholly or partially gummed, as desired. A quantity of the finishing paper blanks is then placed in a JOllYtllltllt position to be fed into a position and place where the paste-board box forming blanks can be placed centrall on top of them, and so that the groovedand scored lines of these paste-board forming blanks will register centraltv over the body of and even with and over the corners of the cuts at the ends of the fiaps ot the finishing blanks. as shown in Fig. H. The paste-board box t'orming blanks are'then subjected to pressureand'artioi'i that is adapted to break their marginal side and end flap portions along their grooved or scored lines 7. without however separating the fiber of the paste-board, after which they are ready to be bent to stand at right angles to the body portionsof these blanks. into walls that will stand vertically to the floor and top portions of the base and cover. when they are properly secured together at their ends. and that stand at. right angles to each other at their corners. and at this point I wish to state that those unsecured corners can .be.

secured together imlepemlently of my fin ished paper blanks by stay strips applied by the ronnnonly used machinery, or they can be secured together by my finished paper blank without the use of imlep aulent stay strips. or they can be secured together by both. V

I preferably, however, use my finished paper blanks for the purpose of securing the erected sides and ends of the paste-board base aml cover blanks together at their corners, and so form and arrange and apply these blanks that the corners are strongly and artistically secured together in vertically correct and square. relat on to each other and to the floor and top of the base and cover. 'lhen-when the base and cap portions of the box are moved onto the finished paper blanks, a suitable pressure is brought against the inside of the base against its floor, which glues the bottom of the paste-board blank of the base portion of the box to the gummed surface of the finished paper blank, which is underneath it. This operation is also performed with pasteboard blanks of the cover portion of the box. Additional means is then brought into action, which operates to fold the opposite ends 9 and 9 of the finished paper blank, and also the ends 4 and 4 of the pasteboard base and cover blanks together, up into the opposite end walls of the box, as follows: The end portions 9 and 4 are folded, pressed, and glued together to form one end wall of the cover and base portion of the box, and the end portions 9 and 4 are folded, pressed, and glued together to form the opposite end wall of the base and cover portions of the box. The base and cap portions being just alike, any two of these parts of the box can be picked up after they are formed, and one part will be the base and the other part the cover. There is no ditt'erence in the construction and size of these members until after the ring shaped body portion has been inserted'in one of them, except that if one of'these parts should have a printed label glued in its top,

this member would then become permanently the cover of the box, while those parts in which the ring-shaped body portion is inserted, become the base portion of the box. In making these parts by Inachinery, they would be made up first just alike in successive order, but almost instantly afterward each alternate part would receive, a label, and would become the cover, while. theintermediate part would receive a ring shaped body portion and would become the base member. and these base and cover portions would then be assembled into completed hinged boxes. The endsll and 12 ot the finished paper blanks are made enough longer than the width of the paste-- board blanks to project beyond them, and these overlapping ends 11 and 12 are folded around their adjacent corners against the side walls 3 and 3" of the base and cover portions, which are now formed into these parts of the box. These ends 11 and 12 of the finished paper blanks are also made enough wider than the height of the end and side walls of the base and cover portions of the box to allow these ends 11 and 12' to project above the end and side walls of these members of the box, and these end portions are folded over the now formed end and side walls of the box into its interior,

and are pressed against the interior surfaces membersjot the box. see Figs. 10 and 11. The. side 1 of each finished paper blank 18 then folded up and pressed against the adjacent side 3, of the cover and of the base,

, completing the box. As

provides a strong,

ing the unferent actions in assembling and a matter of fact, however, it is immaterial whether the longest flap of the cover or is used for the hinge, as each extends to the opposite corner edge of the other, and either can be used for the hinge member, in which case the remaining one would be reserved for sealing the cover to the base. In the mechanism employed for pressing a flap for the hinge, however, one of these will be used consecutively {for the hinge and the other left conseci'ztive'ly for the sealing strip, as the bases and covers are fed in successive order through the machinery.

In Fig. 16, I illustrate a slight modification in the arrangement of the finishing paper blanks and their arrangement to form the hinge member for the cover and the sealing strip to seal the cover to the base. In this modification, one finishing blank is anade to cover the ends and sides of the cover completely and to lap over onto the inside of the sides and ends of the cover, and the other finishing blank is made to over the ends of the base and also the opposite sides of the base, and these side flaps of the base are also made lOng enough to extend far enough beyond the ends of the base to lap across the joint between the cover and base and lap over onto the cover, see Fig. 16, so that one of said flaps of said base is adapted to be glued to said cap and form a hinge member that will hinge the cover to thebase, and the other flap of the base on the opposite side of the base from the hinge member .is adapted to be adhesively pressed against and secured to the cover in such a way as to seal the cover to the base, which of course would not be done until the assembled box with its cover hinged to it, had been filled with cigarettes or some other commodity. These finished paper blanks can be provided with such printed matter, pictures, and artistically arranged decorative matter as is desired, to make the boxes attractive.

My invention contemplates boxes made without the interior body portion, and also contemplates the making of boxes of hexagonal and other polygonal forms and shapes.

My new method of making paper boxes neat, hinged, covered box that can be constructed at much less expense than the hinged boxes at present in use; and While I have illustrated and described the preferred method of constructing and assembling the various elements of that one on the base,

my invention, I do not wish t6 be limited to those illustrated and described, as many changes may be made without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A box, having a finishing-sheet for each of said members, said finishing-sheets having elongated flaps forming cover-hinging and sealing members.

2. A box, having base and cover members, a finishing cover-sheet for each of said members, said finishing cover-sheets having flap members of such lengthjthat the flap forms ahinge on one side of the box between the cover and base, and the other flap forms a seal on the other side of the box.

3. A box, having base and cover members,

a finishing cover-sheet for each of said members, each of said finishing cover-sheets having flaps, tirely covering one side of both base and cover members and acting as a hinge, and

the flap of the other of said sheets acting as a seal for the base and cover members.

4. A box, having base and cover members, a finlshing cover-sheet for each of said memthe flap of one of said sheets enbers, said finishing cover-sheets'having integral flap members of such length that one flap forms ahinge on one side of the box between the cover and base, and the other flap forms a seal on the other side of the box.

5. In a box, body members comprising base and cover portions, a finishing-sheet covering each of said portions, each of said finishing-sheets having relatively shallow flaps covering the ends and one side of its respective body portion and a relatively deep flap which covers entirely one side of the box, one of said relatively deep flaps forming a hinge for the cover, and the other of said deep flaps forming a seal.

6. In a box, body members comprising base and cover portions, an upright collar within the box over which the cover fits, a finishing-sheet covering each of said body portions, each of said sheets having an elongated fiap, one of said flaps providing a hinge for the cover and the other of said aps forming a seal for the box.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' PHILIP STANLEY SMITH. Witnesses:

G. SARoENr ELLIOTT, ELIZABETH SMITH. 

